Subj : Linux port
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Michael Preslar
Date : Thu Jun 02 2005 02:55 am

  Re: Linux port
  By: Maurice Kinal to Michael Preslar on Wed Jun 01 2005 10:11 pm

 >  MP> The dat files arent text files. Theyre structured data files. \n \r\n
 > 
 > Okee dokee.  I'll have to check later and make sure there isn't a problem
 > there.  They've been known to cause anomalous behavior.

That tarball you grabbed is known to work on fc1, fc2, and fc3, gentoo,
freebsd, and mandrake. I dont think you'll be having any problems :)

 >  MP> The text files on the other hand, yeah. Suppose they should be
 >
 > Right.  Also dos2unix works good or simular scripts.

eh, dos2unix does the same thing. Soo.. whatever floats your boat :)

 > I had Apache for awhile but never really did much with it that couldn't be d
 > from bash a lot quicker and more efficiently.  I am obviously too old
 > fashioned.

Eh, it all depends on what your doing, I guess. a message board, for example,
would be good on a webserver or a mailing list. Kinda hard to do a shell
script for that.

But a quick bash script to mail multiple people at one time, easier to do
than a webform or something.


  I did manage to fire up a browser and peruse the web site though
 > I saw references to php but nothing about mysql.  

Which website? Mine? http://www.web-lord.com ?


Seems to be all the rage
 > these days.  Probably a good idea. 

Depends on what you need it for. If anything, using a mysql database allows
for a bit more security, since external files arent created. Imagine a game
like weblord .. say the data is stored in external files. And the webmaster
says "store the files <here>" and <here> is web accessible. Wouldnt be that
hard for someone to guess the url and get the datafiles. Instant cheating.


 One thing about that and my setup here i
 > that my browser doesn't do automatic refreshes so gaming would be difficult.

Guess its a good thing that lord doesnt rely on auto-refreshes. :)

 > Thank you and I'll let you know how it works out here.  It'll be interesting
 > see after all these years and years especially on a Linux console.  :-)

I'm interested in how things work out for you. Be sure to let me know 
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